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[quote=Anonymous][quote=FPYCparent][quote]Are the 08 girls regularly trouncing the opposition?[/quote]

This particular U11 team is in the 10-team NCSL second division for the fall season.  24 goals for, 3 against (one was an own goal).  5 wins with 3 regular season games remaining, so they're already guaranteed a winning season.  But, again, this is a "decent" team going up against second/third teams from larger clubs.  First division also has 10 teams, including some ?higher? teams from clubs also represented in the second division (McLean, GFR, for example).

The upcoming WAGS and Bethesda Premier tournaments will show if these girls are on track for a higher level of play.

Also bear in mind that the 2008s bore the brunt of the age grouping change from school year to birth year.  Many/most of the FPYC 2008 girls were born in the second half of the year.  Any girls born in the first half may have started training with the 2007s (a full year earlier than the 2008s), so some have technically been playing up once the rule change went into effect … with the same amount of experience as the 07s.  Those girls just happen to now qualify to play as 2008s as well.[/quote]

Are the divisions really ranked in the way you say?  At U11?  I thought they didn't rank them at that point.  Agree that it is hard to know at U11 where you stand.  I think joining EDP at U11 is personally a bit much; you'd presumably do both EDP and NCSL at the same time, right?  I would personally give it a season or two at U12 to see where you really stand.

Not that it really matters, but I don't really understand your point about 2008s bearing the brunt of the age group change.  2008s actually were the first kids not to bear the brunt, as I view it, because they started as U9s with the change.  Kids born in the last five months of any older year were disadvantaged in that they have one fewer year of travel play compared to the rest of their age cohorts.  My December 05 kid went straight from U10 to U12, playing with Jan-July kids who had been in U11 the previous year.  The only way 2008s were potentially hurt is that a lot of the younger 2008s may not have played U9 because travel wasn't really on their radar; under the school year system they wouldn't have been U9s yet.  [/quote]

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